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What’s up ChouxBox? We first meet Tony Aiazzi and Xavier “X” Mariezcurrena a year ago on Tech Bites Episode 24. The chef and front-of-house guy are founder of a unique “POP” or point-of-purchase inventory system that works with a snap of an iphone camera and overnight data-entry. They are one of the only restaurant tech companies developed by people who have actually worked in restaurants – which may explain why business and customers have tripled. Hungry for more? Check out the first Choux Box episode on Tech Bites:

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It’s easy to see how the BlurtBox app is an easy way for customers to give feedback in real time to restaurants. Good or bad, people always have something to say. Are restaurant willing to pay for that information? How valuable are customers opinions served up in a private non-Yelp channel? Find out on this episode of Tech Bites when the BlurtBox crew pitches their services to a restaurant owner live – on the air. In-studio guests:

Mandy Oser, Owner, Ardesia and The Camlin

Hungry for more? Check out the first BlurtBox show on Tech Bites episode #29

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Pokémon Go is the hottest app in the world. Period. Launched on July 5, 2016 it is now available in 26 countries with more than 15 million downloads. The augmented reality game has people chasing and capturing Pokémon characters in the real world. Restaurants and business worldwide (like Roberta’s Pizza in Bushwick – home of the Heritage Radio Network Studio) are setting lures and stops to attract players and customers. Today in-studio we talk with Khushbu Shah Deputy Food Editor at Mic., Anthony Falco, Roberta’s Pizza Czar and Chris Ancona, pizza chef and Pokémon Go trainer.

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So you sold your app for $85 million dollars. What do you do next? Why start another app of course. Jakob Jonck, CEO and founder of Feast Kitchen joins us in-studio all the way from Denmark. On this episode of Tech Bites he talks about building and selling apps, his love for cooking and his hope for tech to improve our lives via the food we eat.

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Restaurant staff is a hot topic now. Where are all the good cooks? How do you find them – and keep them? Which pays better – increased minimum wage without tips or the traditional formula? This episode of Tech Bites In-studio guests Patrice Vassell, cook for hire, and Kristen Diver, Director of HR at the Dinex Group, talk from both side of the hiring line to see which digital job boards and online communities work best for restaurant jobs.

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How can a single indie coffee shop compete with a giant corporation like Starbucks? By banding together with other indie coffee shops to create an collective of indie coffee shops. At least that’s Elyes Ben M'rad’s idea and inspiration behind the Cream App, a digital platform and app for search, rewards and payment that unites indie shop owners. On this episode, in-studio guest Elyes Ben M'rad will pitch his Crema App to indie coffee shop owner Rob Herschenfeld, because coffee is important.

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Reserve first came on to the food tech scene in 2014 as way for consumers to "have a better dinning experience" by using the Reserve app. Described as a "digital concierge" the app makes reservations, and holds credit card and tip information to pay the bill. Two years later, the next phase is Reserve for Restaurants. The tech platform is designed to give restaurants greater control over their customer data and reservations systems, to give customers a better experience that is more efficient for the house. It is also designed to take on OpenTable, the long standing, industry giant in hospitality tech. Reserve's CEO/Founder Greg Hong, and Head of Restaurant Product Peter Esmond join us in-studio to discuss their newest product and how they see the future of restaurant tech developing.

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Get Bitten on this episode of Tech Bites. Bitten is a unique hybrid company that produces real life events to engage conversations about food and also works as a creative agency. In-studio guest Naz Riahi, founder of Bitten, talks about current trends and issues at the intersection of food, culture and tech from the recent Bitten NYC Conference, and what’s on the horizon for Bitten LA this fall.

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In 2015, Millennials drank more wine than any other age demographic. According to a recent Wine Market Council report, they drank 42% of wine consumed last year, somewhere around 159.6 million cases of wine. That’s million cases – with a capital M. This has trigged a marketing shift in the wine industry, towards a more digital strategy. In-studio guests Ali Tuthill, Marketing Director for Long Island Wine Council, and Pam Dillon, Co-Founder and CEO of Wine Ring, discuss generating social media and software for the new wine generation.

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So there was this DJ, who spent time touring the world looking for interesting and good things to eat in each city. He did an internship at NASA, then learned software engineering and design, to create the app Phoodie. True story. Phoodie is a social network for foodies, that’s a mash-up of Instagram, Tinder, Pinterest and Yelp. In-studio guest Brooklyn Earick, Founder and CEO of Phoodie, talks about his unusual path from music to apps.

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